In Youku's "Promising" short film, actor Cao Lei reproduced Mr. Lu Xun. Lu Xun, a name that we are not unfamiliar with, as a writer who holds high the banner in modern literature in the mainland, his works still exude dazzling brilliance after a hundred years of precipitation, inspiring every young man to be upward.
Each of us should be inspired by Mr. Lu Xun's words, "May the Chinese youth get rid of the cold air, just go up, do not have to listen to the words of the self-abandoning people, can do things, can speak out, there is a point of light, a point of heat, it will make a firefly, can also shine a little light in the dark, do not have to wait for the torch." ”
Xu Zidong, a professor in the Department of Chinese at Lingnan University in Hong Kong, has studied Lu Xun for a long time. At an event, a reporter asked him a question about Lu Xun, and he said this:
"I think it is necessary to deal with Lu Xun, why is it necessary? 100 years have passed, Lu Xun's words are just like what he said yesterday, I was stunned, I have never seen a writer who can write a sentence equivalent to commenting on today's newspaper. Such a remark can be said to be deafening, and it is precisely such a remark that has resonated with many people.
Why do everyone have such feelings when they read Lu Xun? What kind of charm does Lu Xun's writings have? In fact, a cursory reading of Lu Xun's articles is very obscure, because there are many things that he cannot tell directly, and only by reading them carefully can we find out the profound meaning behind his words. What made him write such a text?
He was born in a wealthy family, witnessed the prosperity and decline of the family, and was in the darkest moment of the alternation of the old and the new in modern China, and experienced the same helplessness and bitterness as all living beings. This allows him to transform it into a kind of power, a power that goes straight to the hearts of the people and awakens the people, and this power is the power of words, the power of the pen.
The persecution of old ideas, abandonment of medicine and literature
In 1881, in a rich family in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, Lu Xun was born, of course, he was not called Lu Xun at that time, he was called Zhou Zhangshou, and later renamed Zhou Shuren, a tree man who was a tree man for ten years and a hundred years.
Although he had no worries about food and clothing since he was a child, after his father died and his family fell into the middle of the road, he did not fall into this way, because his mind was enlightened when he was young, and he was an extremely intelligent person, and he always had a yearning for the outside world.
In the 39th year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, he studied in Japan, and he believed that the reason why the mainland was bullied was because of the weak constitution of the Chinese people, so he studied medicine at Sendai Medical College and met Fujino Yanjiulang, which is the prototype of the character of "Mr. Fujino" that we are familiar with later.
In the article "Mr. Fujino", we can get a glimpse of being a Chinese, international students are excluded and provoked by many locals, what is really hidden behind this is the unequal status between countries, especially the "Russo-Japanese War Educational Film", which made him deeply stimulated and unforgettable, and finally chose to return to China, abandon medicine and pursue literature, and should first change the psychological state of the Chinese people.
The oppression of the people by feudal etiquette and customs made Lu Xun extremely dissatisfied, but in 1906, he himself was persecuted by this kind of feudal dross that he hated. That year, my mother, who was far away from home, sent a letter from home, mentioning that she was not in good health and asked her son to come home to visit.
When Lu Xun heard this, he was concerned about his mother's body, hurriedly bought a ferry ticket, and returned to his hometown after several turns. Unexpectedly, when he returned to his hometown, what awaited him was a bride he had never met, and a marriage that was destined not to be accepted by him.
It turned out that his mother had set up the marriage in his absence. Lu Xun was unwilling to accept the feudal arranged marriage, but he couldn't resist his mother's death, so he could only choose to give in. But no matter what, there was no way for him to accept Juan.
He also gave Zhu An a chance to choose, but Zhu An was never able to get rid of the feudal shackles on her, which also made Lu Xun never admit that Zhu An was his wife throughout his life. This, coupled with what he saw and heard in Japan, strengthened his belief in abandoning medicine and pursuing literature to save the souls and minds of the Chinese people.
Warriors of the new culture
Lu Xun, who put down the scalpel, although he had a period of difficulty, finally picked up the pen in his hand and used the pen as a knife.
"If you don't break out in silence, you will perish in silence", only with the most profound and sharp words can we wake up some sleeping Chinese and awaken some intellectual youth. Chen Duxiu found him, hoping that he could join "New Youth" together and inject some fresh blood into "New Youth".
New Youth, Vol. 4, No. 5 contains Lu Xun's first vernacular novel, Diary of a Madman, which is also the first vernacular short story in the history of modern Chinese literature to be written in modern style.
"I opened the history and checked, this history has no age, and the words "benevolence, righteousness and morality" are written on every crooked page. I couldn't sleep horizontally and vertically, and after reading it carefully for half the night, I could see the words in the cracks, and there were two words written all over the book that were "cannibalism"!"
"Diary of a Madman" directly refers to feudal etiquette, it is his first cry after silence and reflection, it is his anger, resentment, dissatisfaction, as well as the hope and prayer of the new life, and the interweaving of various complex emotions that give it a power to break through people's hearts. When I was a child, I couldn't understand "Diary of a Madman", but when I read it when I grew up, I couldn't help but burst into tears.
Mr. Lu Xun's loud cry for the oppression of reality can finally wake up a part of the people, who, like him, began to rebel and shout against reality.
The New Culture Movement, headed by "New Youth", shoulders the heavy task of emancipating the mind and enlightening the mind, and this road is destined to be full of thorns and frost, but it is precisely because they have never flinched or given up that this thorny path can finally pave a broad road.
At this time, I can't help but think of Mr. Lu Xun's words again, "If there is no torch from now on, I am the only light." ”
Lu Xun's contemporary values
Mr. Lu Xun's thoughts have the same value now. His thinking is not only national, but also global, and he is not only concerned with the lives of his own people, but also about the common problems faced by mankind. He talked about "take-it-or-leave-it" and what happened to Nala after she left, and the issues he talked about are still of great value today.
From the point of view of Marxism, the world is constantly developing and spiraling, and we are always in a confrontation between the old and the new, which can also see the shining point of Lu Xun's thought.
Mr. Lu Xun's efforts to reveal the reality of social darkness are also applicable to our current society.
This is what Xu Zidong said, 100 years have passed, and Lu Xun's words are still as deafening as today.
Brief summary:
When we trace Mr. Lu Xun, we not only look at the literary connotation in his works, but also appreciate the temperature behind the words and the profound meaning of why he can have far-reaching influence. So I can be sure that Mr. Lu Xun's works, even after a hundred or a thousand years, can still bloom his brilliance in the literary world.